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You are watching Intestinal Worms Season 2 Episode 3

Intestinal Worms blight the lives of an estimated 2 million people. They live in the gut and feed on the nutrients we need to survive leading to retarded growth and anaemia. 'Kill or Cure?' travels to Vietnam to see how improved health education and drugs can help plus it looks at a radical new vaccine being developed in the USA, one of the first vaccine to such a large human parasite.

• On site 09 September 2008
• Air date 29 June 2005
• Produced for BBC World

TV Series — Kill or Cure?

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Keywords

• Health,
• Asia,
• Infectious Disease,
• NTD,
• neglected disease,
• UNICEF